With a bit more than a week to go before Pride Month kicks off on June 1, Twitch is launching a new collection of 350-plus content tags aimed at boosting the discoverability of marginalized voices.
It’s a ridiculously late change for a tagging feature that was first introduced in 2018, but still a welcome one for content creators on the site who have long sought ways to increase their visibility on a crowded and noisy streaming platform. Before the coming update, streamers had just one rather broad tag — LGBTQIA+ — that. to many, fell far short.
“Next week, streamers will be able to select from over 350 new tags related to gender, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ability, mental health, and more,” Twitch’s Friday blog post reads. “The list of tags include transgender, Black, disabled, veteran, and Vtuber, among many others.” Read more…
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